Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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

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.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

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