Continuous eloquence wearies.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.