Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
The only shame is to have none.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
Imagination decides everything.
When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
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