Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. - Blaise Pascal

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

Voilà notre état véritable. C'est ce qui resserre nos connaissances en de certaines bornes que nous ne pas sons pas, incapables de savoir tout, et d'ignorer tout absolument.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.