There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.