To philosophize is to learn to die.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.