The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener q….

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny..

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it..

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them..

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide..

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told ….

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is..

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room..

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be….

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary..

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch..

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him..

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution..

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right..

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him..

The best defense against logic is ignorance..

It is not certain that everything is uncertain..

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die..

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe..

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable..

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God..