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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Vanity is but the surface.
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
The self is hateful.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
We never love a person, but only qualities.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
The only shame is to have none.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
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