The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever..

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies..

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk..

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself..

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately..

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it mo….

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatnes….

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse..

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In….

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men..

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality..

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same….

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be..

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own plac….

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it ….

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love..

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling..

The gospel to me is simply irresistible..

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday..

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones..

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other..