The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.