It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.