The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

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.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.