Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.