What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
Fear could never make virtue.
Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.
Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.