"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

"Man is full of needs: he loves only those who can satisfy them all."

"The true religion teaches us our duties, our weaknesses, the pride and self-love that corrupt us, and the remedies which will cure us."

"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it."

"The supreme function of reason is to show man that there is nothing beyond reason."