Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

كان من أولئك الذين, مع الأسف, ولدوا لكي يمارسوا الفضيلة دون أن يشعروا بحلاوتها, ممن يفعلون الخير من منطلق تطبيق النظام, كما يحاكمون الأمور.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.