One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because t…

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However ju…

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty im…

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovere…

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is present…

- Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet