The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.