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

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

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.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.