Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!