Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

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

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.