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

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.