Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion … - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.