Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Let us cultivate our garden.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.