Do not try to seem wise to others.
It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.