I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

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