If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.