"I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun, adopting as my motto 'to live well, one must live concealed'."

"The soul is not in the body as a pilot in his ship, but intimately joined and intermingled with it."

"The first precept was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such."

"I am accustomed to sleep, and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics do when awake."

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."