"The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure. Pleasure is given by the good."

"The only good is God."

"The true function of art is to prepare us for suffering."

"Every time that a man has, from a pure motive, renounced a possession, a pleasure, a satisfaction, a compensation, he has increased the quantity of being in the universe."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person who is crushed who feels it."