A witty saying proves nothing.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!" God granted it.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity.

Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?

It is very strange that men should deny a creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.