We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

The thing I fear most is fear.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.