“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.