One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.