Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.