"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal"

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."

"Little things comfort us because little things distress us."

"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder."

"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."

"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."

"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."

"When one does not love too much, one does not love enough."

"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back"

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it."

"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."

"You always admire what you really don't understand."