No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.
To understand via the heart is not to understand.
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.
If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable “Hoc” produced for the world!
It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
Death pays all debts.
Men are nothing until they are excited.
You have your face bare; I am all face.
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
Whom conscience, ne’er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
When we have got it, we want something else.