Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room..

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am com….

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man..

I know whom I have believed..

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry..

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sci….

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christi….

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which w….

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if t….

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room..

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indiff….

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room..

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire m….

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one..

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great leng….

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happin….

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind..

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious….

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries..

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all..