The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.