“As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.”

“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.”

“People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.”

“Power ought to serve as a check to power.”

“But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.”

“When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“A reputation is like a shadow; it hides when you go to sleep, but always returns with the sun”

“Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!”