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.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.