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

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

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

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

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.