We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.