I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

We cannot fail in following nature.

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