What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Time takes all and gives all

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.