It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.
VoltaireThe most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
Voltaire