From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.