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.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.