If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?