All men are born truthful and die liars.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Reason deceives us more often than does nature.
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.