We should tend our freedom wisely.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.
Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought...
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to...
Philosophy is doubt.
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
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.
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...
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Let every foot have its own shoe.
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our...
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.