It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Observe, observe perpetually.

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

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."

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

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

Few men have been admired by their own domestics.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Habit is a second nature.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

There must then be something that is better, and that must be God. When you see a stately and stupendous edifice, though you do not know who is the owner of it, you would yet conclude it was not built for rats. And this divine structure, that we behold of the celestial palace, have we not reason to believe that it is the residence of some possessor, who is much greater than we?

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.