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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.