Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.