To hold a pen is to be at war.

God created women only to tame men.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

Nature has always had more force than education.