Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

The best is the enemy of the good.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Every evil begets some good.

Religion, far from being beneficial food, turns to poison in infected brains.

God should worshiped, not avenged. It is absurd for insects like ourselves to think we can avenge God.