One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
God created sex. Priests created marriage.