Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. |
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. |
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. |
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. |
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. |
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. |
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. |
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. |
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. |
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism |
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? |
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force |
Great and small suffer the same mishaps |
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. |
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. |