Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.