There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.); now, if this was not the ….

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow..

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher con….

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of….

The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no re….

A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when giv….

The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true phi….

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence..

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a ….

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them..

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instinct….

It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice..

Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or ta….

Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in t….

Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for….

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the….

So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) ….

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature..

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individua….

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about ….

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured t….