Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin