Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

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

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)