Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

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.