Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
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.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.