Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.