We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.