The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice. |
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. |
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. |
Justice without force is impotent, force without justice is tyranny. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. |
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. |
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth. |
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. |
The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. |
