Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death..

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True ….

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in compos….

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death..

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat..

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart..

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed..

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God….

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough..

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude..

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize..

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self..

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread..

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true..

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a ….

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him..

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do..

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..

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory..

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them..