Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.