Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

The truth brings no man a fortune

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.