Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

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.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

To philosophize is to doubt.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.