The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.