Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

Define your terms, you will permit me again to say, or we shall never understand one another.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

His reputation will go on increasing because scarcely anyone reads him.

It is sad that often, to be a good patriot, one must be the enemy of the rest of mankind.

It is sometimes said, common sense is very rare.