The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.