Truth Is Not So Threadbare As Speech,

Faith Is The Consolation Of The Wretched And The Terror Of The Happy.

If Passion Sometimes Counsels Greater Boldness Than Does Reflection, It Gives More Strength To Execute It.

We Can Love With All Our Hearts Those In Whom We Recognize Great Faults. It Would Be Impertinent To Believe That Perfection Alone Has The Right To Please Us; Sometimes Our Weaknesses Attach Us To Each Other As Much As Our Virtues.

It Is In Our Own Mind And Not In Exterior Objects That We Perceive Most Things; Fools Know Scarcely Anything Because They Are Empty, And Their Heart Is Narrow; But Great Souls Find In Themselves A Number Of Exterior Things; They Have No Need To Read Or Travel Or To Listen Or To Work To Discover The Highest Truths; They Have Only To Delve Into Themselves And Search, If We May Say So, Their Own Thoughts.

We Often Quarrel With The Unfortunate To Get Rid Of Pitying Them.