It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.