Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.

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.

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

The property of power is to protect.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.