If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.