If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.