Bad Company Is As Instructive

If There Were A Reason For Preferring The Christian Religion To Natural Religion, It Would Be Because The Former Offers Us, On The Nature Of God And Man, Enlightenment That The Latter Lacks. Now, This Is Not At All The Case; For Christianity, Instead Of Clarifying, Gives Rise To An Infinite Multitude Of Obscurities And Difficulties.

Our Observation Of Nature Must Be Diligent, Our Reflection Profound, And Our Experiments Exact. We Rarely See These Three Means Combined; And For This Reason, Creative Geniuses Are Not Common.

Happiest Are The People Who Give Most Happiness To Others.

There Is Only One Passion, The Passion For Happiness.

What Is This World? A Complex Whole, Subject To Endless Revolutions. All These Revolutions Show A Continual Tendency To Destruction; A Swift Succession Of Beings Who Follow One Another, Press Forward, And Vanish; A Fleeting Symmetry; The Order Of A Moment. I Reproached You Just Now With Estimating The Perfection Of Things By Your Own Capacity; And I Might Accuse You Here Of Measuring Its Duration By The Length Of Your Own Days.