Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Nature has always had more force than education.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.