God created sex. Priests created marriage.
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.