One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Not by force shall the children learn, but through play
The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.