It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Theft, incest, infanticide, patricide, have all had a place among virtuous actions. Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the otherside of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand.
The entire universe needs not aim itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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