Knowing intelligent thoughts is an excellent exercise, it fertilizes the mind and sharpens the thinking.
From history we accumulate experience, on the basis of which the liveliest part of our practical mind is formed.
True greatness is based on understanding one's own strength, false greatness on knowing the weaknesses of others.
Beauty needs no additional adornments and is most adorned by the absence of adornments.
It is not the punishment that is shameful, but the crime.
Work is a healing balm, a fountain of virtue.
God, who proved to be so deceitful and insidious, creating the first man and then subjecting him to temptation and sin, cannot be considered something perfect and must be considered a monster, unjust and cruel.
In matters of religion, people can be called big children.
Injustice reigns in the world.
Punishment in the afterlife is nothing but an invention designed to cloud human reason, to mislead people, to deprive them of peace of mind, and to turn them into obedient slaves of the clergy.
All the religions that exist on earth only give us a collection of myths and fancies that boggle the mind.
Every religion is intolerant in itself, both by virtue of its principles and by virtue of its interests.
Any person who thinks seriously about religion and its supernatural principles, who seriously weighs its advantages and disadvantages, will be convinced that religion and its principles are not good for mankind, and in any case contradict human nature.
The people's choice of religion will always be influenced by their leaders. The true religion is always that promoted by the king; the true God is the one whom the king commands us to worship; thus, the will of the king always proves to be the will of God.
Genius is a vision that encompasses at a glance all the points of the horizon.
To say that moral ideals are innate or the result of instinct is like saying that man can read letters.
To say that religion is not accessible to reason is to admit that it is not made for thinking beings; thus, we can agree that even those who spread the religion do not understand any of the mysteries they preach day by day.
They say God is patient. But patience is a manifest sin; doesn't this mean detecting an impotence, or even complicity in this sin?
Even the happiest wars do not bring peace.
To make others happy - this is the best way to become happy in this world; to do good deeds - is to care about the happiness of your fellow man.
Virtue is incompatible with ignorance, superstition, slavery; slaves can only be subdued through fear of punishment.
The dogmas of any religion turn out to be absurdities from the point of view of another religion, which preaches other equally absurd doctrines.
Down with reason! - here is the foundation of religion.
A friend who is of no use to his friend becomes a stranger to him.
The clergy would be very unhappy if they were paid spiritually for their spiritual work.
The gospel indeed brought with it "not peace, but a sword." From the apostles until today, the Christian world is divided by hatred, persecution and pestilence.
If God is so long-suffering in the execution of his judgment and allows the presence of evil throughout the existence of our planet, then what guarantees can there be that in the world to come God will do the same and not allow suffering to persist in the ranks its inhabitants?
If evil did not exist in this world, man would not even think of God.
If the ministers of the church have often allowed the poor to defend God's will with arms in hand, they have never allowed revolt against the real and obvious evil of violence.
If the throne is a source of aristocracy's splendor, then it will soon become a weapon of its decay and fetter.