The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.