One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!