What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
To know how to live is my trade and my art.
Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.