The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.