When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.