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

"We are so unhappy that we can only be happy by diversion."

"Man is so great that his greatness is known even in his knowing himself to be miserable."

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed."

"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."