When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

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

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.