Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.