Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. Lack of money is the root of all evil. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. He who has never hoped can never despair.