absolute quotes

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

- Mary Astell
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

At worst, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.

-Thom(sonWilliam) Gunn
  'On the Move'.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, no.129 (translated byA Krailsheimer).