There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.