Ants and savages put strangers to death.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.