Maximum individuality within maximum community
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.