Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

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.

Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

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.