Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Yalnızlıktan hoşlanmama nasıl şaşılır? İnsanların yüzünde düşmanlıktan başka bir şey görmüyorum; oysa doğa bana hep gülüyor.

En cuanto a mí, siempre que he deseado aprender ha sido para saber yo mismo y no para enseñar; siempre he creído que antes de enseñar a los demás era menester comenzar por saber lo bastante para sí, y, de todos los estudios que he intentado hacer en mi vida en medio de los hombres, apenas hay alguno que no hubiera hecho igualmente solo en una isla desierta en la que hubiera estado confinado para el resto de mis días.

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.