At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose … - Blaise Pascal

All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

Ci Puo' essere quakcosa di piu' stupido del fatto che un uomo abbia il diritto di uccidermi perche' vive sull'altra sponda di un fiume e il suo sovrano ha avuto una lite con il mio, anche se io non ho litigato con lui?

Man is neither angel nor devil, and his tragedy is that he who tries too hard to play the first too often ends up as the second.