Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

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

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.