It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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.