Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

Fear could never make virtue.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.