Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.