God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
A small number of choice books are sufficient.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.