One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.