Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Faith is a gift of God.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.
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.
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
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.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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.
The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
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