The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

Let each of us examine his thoughts

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.