All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are.
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will.
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that [God] exists.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
