I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.