Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

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.