Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

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?

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.