The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.