This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

I am myself the matter of my book.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.