The passions are the voice of the body.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man