Collection of phrases and quotes about life.
Let it not be from another who can be master of oneself.
I prefer to be wrong believing in a God who does not exist, than to be wrong not believing in a God who exists. Because if there is nothing afterwards, obviously I will never know it when I sink into eternal nothingness; but if there is something, if there is Someone, I will have to account for my attitude of rejection.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I have no time to make it shorter.
Misfortune reveals to the soul lights that prosperity fails to perceive.
What is man within nature? Nothing compared to the infinite. Everything compared to nothing. An intermediary between nothing and everything.
Man is naturally credulous, incredulous; timid, reckless.
Description of man: dependency, desire for independence, necessity.