Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.