Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

If you wish to be loved, love.