“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
God made me and broke the mold.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.