It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Change everything except your loves.
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.