When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

If he exalt himself, I humble him if he humble himself, I exalt him: and I always contradict him, till he understands that he is an incomprehensible monster.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Imagination decides everything.

Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice.

Immateriality of the soul. When philosophers have subdued their passions, what material substance has managed to achieve this?

Earthly things must be known to be loved; heavenly things must be loved to be known.

When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply this exception to themselves, and this encourages despair, instead of turning them away from it to encourage hope.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.