Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.