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

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.