To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.