A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.