One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.