Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.