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.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.