The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.