» Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
» Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
» The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
» Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
» As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
» While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
» I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
» Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
» Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
» [Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.