If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.