When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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.

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...?

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.