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Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.