If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

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

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

To understand is to forgive.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.