The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

I know whom I have believed.