Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
God is a thing that thinks.
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.