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

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.