“Philosophy is doubt.”
“Habit is second nature.”
“The thing I fear most is fear.”
“My art and profession is to live.”
“Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.”
“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”
“It is not death that alarms me, but dying.”
“I want death to find me planting my cabbage”
“No wind favors him who has no destined port.”
“The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.”
“Few men have been admired of their familiars.”
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
“The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”
“The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.”
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
“I quote others in order to better express myself.”
“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
“Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.”
“An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.”
“He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.”
“The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.”
“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
“A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.”
“All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.”
“My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”
“The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.”
“Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.”
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
“Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.”
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.”