He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.