A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.