The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
Let us cultivate our garden.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Paradise is where I am.
We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
Men argue. Nature acts.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
History should be written as philosophy.
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
Injustice in the end produces independence.