The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.