Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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.
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.