He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.