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

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

I do not teach. I relate.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

A man must become wise at his own expense.