Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.