We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.