Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.