Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it