The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.