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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.