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.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.