There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

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

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

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.