All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.