Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

The only shame is to have none.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.