"Man is a being in search of meaning."

"A freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

"There is, in my view, the birth of society that each of us, far from being sufficient to itself, on the contrary need a large number of people."

"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."

"He whom love touches not walks in darkness."

"It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light."

"I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself."

"I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger."

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."

"It is only just that anything that up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."