Knowledge Humanizes Mankind, And Reason Inclines To

In Vain Do We Seek Tranquility In The Desert; Temptations Are Always With Us; Our Passions, Represented By The Demons, Never Let Us Alone: Those Monsters Created By The Heart, Those Illusions Produced By The Mind, Those Vain Specters That Are Our Errors And Our Lies Always Appear Before Us To Seduce Us; They Attack Us Even In Our Fasting Or Our Mortifications, In Other Words, In Our Very Strength.

There Is Something In Animals Beside The Power Of Motion. They Are Not Machines; They Feel.

In Bodies Moved, The Motion Is Received, Increased, Diminished, Or Lost, According To The Relations Of The Quantity Of Matter And Velocity; Each Diversity Is Uniformity, Each Change Is Constancy.

The False Notion Of Miracles Comes Of Our Vanity, Which Makes Us Believe We Are Important Enough For The Supreme Being To Upset Nature On Our Behalf.

As Soon As Man Enters Into A State Of Society He Loses The Sense Of His Weakness; Equality Ceases, And Then Commences The State Of War.