The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.