Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

The way to be a bore is to say everything.