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Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

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We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

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Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling her...more

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

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...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with co...more

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

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Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

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Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by...more