Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.