It Is Not Permitted To The Most

Imagination Magnifies Small Objects With Fantastic Exaggeration Until They Fill Our Soul, And With Bold Insolence Cuts Down Great Things To Its Own Size, As When Speaking Of God.

Earnestness Is Enthusiasm Tempered By Reason.

We Are Only Troubled By The Fears Which We, And Not Nature, Give Ourselves, For They Add To The State In Which We Are The Passions Of The State In Which We Are Not.

Silence. All Human Unhappiness Comes From Not Knowing How To Stay Quietly In A Room.

Passion Cannot Be Beautiful Without Excess; One Either Loves Too Much Or Not Enough.