A feeble body weakens the mind.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.