If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.