The thing I fear most is fear.

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, on our arses.

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?

Few men have been admired by their own households.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.