The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.