True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

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.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.