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.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.