Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.