The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

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.

Books are a languid pleasure.

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Let every foot have its own shoe.