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.
From Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Vanity is but the surface.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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