One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
Injustice in the end produces independence.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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?
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
A good imitation is the most perfect originality.
Better is the enemy of good.
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be...
History should be written as philosophy.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.