I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?