It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

I made all my generals out of mud.