“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”

“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. ”

“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing”

“The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.”

“If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”

“Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.”

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”