An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
We only half live when we only half think.
Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.