You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.