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As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.