How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired..

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness..

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them..

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within….

How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing.….

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it..

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..

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too..

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it..

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness..

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throat….

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals..

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..

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just..

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants..

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts..

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do n….

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be fou….

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death..

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism..

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one whic….