Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
Minds differ still more than faces.
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.