A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
Life is the result of all your choices.
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.