You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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.

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

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

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.