"We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn."

"C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur."

"He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

"Whatever can be done another day can be done today."

"Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux."

"All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end."

"He who would teach men to die would teach them to live."

"The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave."

"Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."

"Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?"

"All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there."

"The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom."

"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."

"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."

"To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen."

"Un peu de chaque chose, et rien du tout, a la française."

"Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire."

"Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head."