La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.