Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.