Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.