"Man is full of desires, and desires are full of misery."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who will follow us when we are no more."

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

"We are generally more persuaded by the reasons we have ourselves discovered than by those which have been discovered by others."