The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.
The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.
Everything can be borne except contempt.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.
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.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn’t understand him, and when a man who’s speaking no longer understands, it’s metaphysics.
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion.
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
The man who says to me, “Believe as I do, or God will damn you,” will presently say, “Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.”