Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

No animal admires another animal.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.