Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

I know whom I have believed.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.