“Vanity is but the surface.” — Blaise Pascal

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.