Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
They make a desert and call it peace.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.