Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.