If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

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

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.