Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
He loves little who loves by rule.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
It needs courage to be afraid.
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.