Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.