“Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.”

“We find in them an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. Still, we ought not to burn them.”

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”