The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
By thought I embrace the universe.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.