Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.