We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.