The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.