Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.