Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.