The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Does anyone really know where they're going to?

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.