Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
True eloquence scorns eloquence.
There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.
What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
To understand is to forgive.
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
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