“It is difficult to free people from the chains they revere.”

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”

“It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.”

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.”