In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
We make allowance for necessity.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.