Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

Titles do not count with posterity.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.