Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.