Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
My trade and art is to live.
That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me...
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.