"If our condition were truly happy, we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it."

"We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it."

"We must laugh at what we despise, and not at what we fear."

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."

"We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."