We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?