All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.