Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

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

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.