All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.