Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.