“Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.”

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

California’s beaches are actually super cold don’t be deceived.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.