Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Jurisdiction is given not for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

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?

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

The grandeur of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.

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

If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.

Wisdom sends us to childhood.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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