Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Dare to think for yourself.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Better is the enemy of good.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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