It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The best sentence? The shortest.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.