The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
No noble thing can be done without risks.
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?