All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy