The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.