I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.