With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.