The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.