Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

To know nothing is the happiest life.