The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".