When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"
Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.