The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

He loves little who loves by rule.

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

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.