The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought