Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.