Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.