We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.