Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

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

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.