We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.