He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

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

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

When we have got it, we want something else.