Christianity is called the religion of pity.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.