I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.