Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.