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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.