Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.