Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
The best is the enemy of the good.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.