Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

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.