The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

A man must become wise at his own expense.