What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.