Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was great in his vocation, buried like a king who had do...
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Tears are the silent language of grief.
The best is the enemy of the good.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
Chance is a word void of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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