I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?