In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?