Europe Is A State With Several Provinces

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

The Tyranny Of A Prince In An Oligarchy Is Not So Dangerous To The Public Welfare As The Apathy Of A Citizen In A Democracy.

Religious Wars Are Not Caused By The Fact That There Is More Than One Religion, But By The Spirit Of Intolerance... The Spread Of Which Can Only Be Regarded As The Total Eclipse Of Human Reason.

An Author Is A Fool Who, Not Content With Boring Those He Lives With, Insists On Boring Future Generations.

Vanity And Pride Of Nations; Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous.