Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.