Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.