We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Man is but a reed, the feeblest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? Which is the more difficult-to be born, or to rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it?

By thought I embrace the universal.

We arrive at truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill men because he dwells on the other side of the water, and because his prince has a quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?