What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.