- The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. »
- The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. »
- By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn. »
- I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter. »
- The Knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. »
- I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. »
- Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. »
- If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. »
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. »
- If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. »
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. »
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