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.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.