Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

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