The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

We like to be deceived.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.