As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.