Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.