There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

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