By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

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.