I can certainly imagine a man without hands, feet, or head, for it is only experience that teaches us that the head is more necessary than the feet. … - Blaise Pascal

What would you say of that man who was made king by the error of the people, if he had so far forgotten his natural condition as to imagine that this kingdom was due to him, that he deserved it, and that it belonged to him of right? You would marvel at his stupidity and folly. But is there less in the people of rank who live in so strange a forgetfulness of their natural condition?

We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.

Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.