Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

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

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.