While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
The stupid are invincible.
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.