All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

We cannot wish for that we know not.