When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Only your friends steal your books.