There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.