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

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~