A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?