Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.