Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.