“If the gods do evil then they are not gods.”

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

The wisest men follow their own direction.

You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.

My love for you was greater than my wisdom.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Action achieves more than words.

All thinking men are atheists.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.