Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

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

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

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.