People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.