Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]