Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

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