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.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

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