“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”
“A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least everything is human.”
“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”
“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.”
“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
“Let every foot have its own shoe.”