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

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.