It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.