[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we would never travel by s… - Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

In reading this author [ Montaigne ] and comparing him with Epictetus, I have found that they are assuredly the two greatest defenders of the two most celebrated sects of the world, and the only ones conformable to reason, since we can only follow one of these two roads, namely: either that there is a God, and then we place in him the sovereign good; or that he is uncertain, and that then the true good is also uncertain, since he is incapable of it.

Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.