To understand is to forgive.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

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

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.