“Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.”

“Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”

“I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.”

“All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.”

“Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.”

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.”

“Each man contains the entire pattern of the human condition. There”

“Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.”

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb."

“For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.”

“The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.”

“There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.”

“it is myself I paint. My”

“For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.”

“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”

-"On restraining your will.”

“Wie overal is, is nergens.”

“I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.”

“[Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3”