There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying..

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent..

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts..

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material..

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them..

That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of ….

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six ….

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity ….

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter..

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory..

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away..

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant..

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool..

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it….

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf..

The war existing between the senses and reason..

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeki….

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is fool….

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just..

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next….

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real..