Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

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

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

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