Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.