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?
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.