If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.