There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

There can be no happiness without good health