I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.