Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.