It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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