Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.