Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don’t speak.

The only shame is to have none.

Art thou less a slave by being loved and favoured by thy master? Thou art indeed well off, slave. Thy master favours thee; he will soon beat thee.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Grace is indeed needed to turn a man into a saint; and he who doubts it does not know what a saint or a man is.

The power of kings is founded on the reason and on the folly of the people, and specially on their folly.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.