A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is not enough to conquer, one must learn to seduce.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

To believe in God is impossible, not to believe in Him is absurd.

When it is a matter of money, everyone is of the same religion.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves.