Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Love truth, and pardon error.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.