Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.