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

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

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.