Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.