An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.