But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.