The laborer furnishes the capitalist with money, houses, clothes, eatables, service and then the weapons and power to keep him enslaved.
If you have not improved your condition physically, mentally and morally over that of your parents, your life has been a failure.
Religion is a great cudgel held threateningly by the strong over the heads of the weak to keep them in a state of ignorance and slavery.
If the soul were born with the body, then it must die with it; but if the soul live afterward, then it must have lived before the body was born.
The learned man is sometimes wise; the wise man is not always learned. The wise man produces good thoughts direct from nature; the learned man acquires them afterward.