Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.