Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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.