Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
To Educate is to Free.
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.