So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.