The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf..

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel..

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power..

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society..

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frug….

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things..

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 r….

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death..

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness..

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides..

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits..

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations..

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves..

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent..

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind..

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benef….

Man is a social animal formed to please in society..

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect..

Mediocrity is a hand-rail..

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor..