How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.