We lose all that time which we might employ better.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.