Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.