The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
How many things are there which I do not want.
The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.