Sadness diminishes a man's powers
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.