"It is then apparent that, if there are great crimes on the earth, there are as many virtues; and that, if superstition produces horrible sufferings, philosophy redresses them."
"We hold the Jews in horror, and we insist that all which has been written by them, and collected by us, bears the stamp of Divinity. There never was so palpable a contradiction."
"Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!"
"What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason."
"The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of 'A circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.'"
"An almost infallible means of saving yourself from the desire of self-destruction is always to have something to do."
"A good action is preferable to an argument."
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are opening a new road."
"Only because a host of experiences belied predictions, did men at last perceive that the art (astrology) is illusory; but, before being undeceived, they were long credulous."
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