Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.