And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.