Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.