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.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

God created woman to tame man.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.