“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

“Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.”

“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.”

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

“Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear?”

“Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.”

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.”