Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

By thought I embrace the universe.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.