Of all religions$$$ the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance$$$ but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love$$$ than in being undeceived by them.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive$$$ and being silent to be impenetrable.

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

In every province$$$ the chief occupations$$$ in order of importance$$$ are lovemaking$$$ malicious gossip$$$ and talking nonsense.

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes$$$ but the friendship between us$$$ the mutual confidence$$$ the delight of the heart$$$ the enchantment of the soul$$$ these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.