Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?