Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

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

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.