Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

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.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The thing I fear most is fear.