God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

All religions have been made by men.

I start out by believing the worst

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

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.