Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.