I Have Read Descriptions Of Paradise That

I Shall Be Obliged To Wander To The Right And To The Left, That I May Investigate And Discover The Truth.

In The Birth Of Societies It Is The Chiefs Of States Who Give It Its Special Character; And Afterward It Is This Special Character That Forms The Chiefs Of State.

In Vain Do We Seek Tranquility In The Desert; Temptations Are Always With Us; Our Passions, Represented By The Demons, Never Let Us Alone: Those Monsters Created By The Heart, Those Illusions Produced By The Mind, Those Vain Specters That Are Our Errors And Our Lies Always Appear Before Us To Seduce Us; They Attack Us Even In Our Fasting Or Our Mortifications, In Other Words, In Our Very Strength.

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.

Republics End Through Luxury; Monarchies Through Poverty.