If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

History should be written as philosophy.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity