The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.