Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.