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.
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.