There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.