Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

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

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.