Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.