God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
What is not in nature can never be true.
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.