Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.