Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.