Superstition attaches to this life, and religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, and religion to virtue; it is from the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious, and it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these same desires that we are religious.

Ten Years' Exile (Dix années d'exil, written 1810–1813, posthumously published 1821), ch. 16