What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I am myself the matter of my book.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.