We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Without freedom there is no art.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.