Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.
A small number of choice books are sufficient.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.