What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.