If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.