Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.