The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.