Love truth, but pardon error.

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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

Paradise is where I am

Nature has always had more force than education.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.