And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Everything is self-evident.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.