The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.