We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Why God has instituted Prayer:โ To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.