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

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.