He who love touches walks not in darkness.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.