The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.