When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Moses MendelssohnJudaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Moses MendelssohnThe analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
Moses Mendelssohn