A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.