If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.