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

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.