Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

The contact of two epidermises.