People Praise Virtue, But They Hate It,

All Abstract Sciences Are Nothing But The Study Of Relations Between Signs.

And His Hands Would Plait The Priest's Entrails, For Want Of A Rope, To Strangle Kings.

When We Know To Read Our Own Hearts, We Acquire Wisdom Of The Heartsof Others.

The Best Mannered People Make The Most Absurd Lovers.

One Must Be Oneself Very Little Of A Philosopher Not To Feel That The Finest Privilege Of Our Reason Consists In Not Believing In Anything By The Impulsion Of A Blind And Mechanical Instinct, And That It Is To Dishonour Reason To Put It In Bonds As The Chaldeans Did. Man Is Born To Think For Himself.