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

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"