All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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