Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.