Study Has Been For Me The Sovereign

A Prince Who Loves And Fears Religion Is A Lion Who Stoops To The Hand That Strokes Or To The Voice That Appeases Him. He Who Fears And Hates Religion Is Like The Savage Beast That Growls And Bites The Chain, Which Prevents His Flying On The Passenger. He Who Has No Religion At All Is That Terrible Animal Who Perceives His Liberty Only When He Tears In Pieces, And When He Devours.

Better It Is To Say That The Government Most Comfortable To Nature Is That Which Best Agrees With The Humor And Disposition Of The People In Whose Favor It Is Established.

Slavery, Properly So Called, Is The Establishment Of A Right Which Gives To One Man Such A Power Over Another As Renders Him Absolute Master Of His Life And Fortune.

Lunch Kills Half Of Paris, Supper The Other Half.

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.