If I Knew Something That Would Serve

Men Should Be Bewailed At Their Birth, And Not At Their Death.

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.

Christians Are Beginning To Lose The Spirit Of Intolerance Which Animated Them: Experience Has Shown The Error Of The Expulsion Of The Jews From Spain, And Of The Persecution Of Those Christians In France Whose Belief Differed A Little From That Of The King. They Have Realized That Zeal For The Advancement Of Religion Is Different From A Due Attachment To It; And That In Order To Love It And Fulfil Its Behests, It Is Not Necessary To Hate And Persecute Those Who Are Opposed To It.

Wherever I Find Envy I Take A Pleasure In Provoking It: I Always Praise Before An Envious Man Those Who Make Him Grow Pale.

It Is Not The Young People That Degenerate; They Are Not Spoiled Till Those Of Mature Age Are Already Sunk Into Corruption.