The perfect is the enemy of the good.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.