The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this fo… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now, it matters very much to the community that each citizen should have a religion. That will make him love his duty; but the dogmas of that religion concern the State and its members only so far as they have reference to morality and to the duties which he who professes them is bound to do to others. Each man may have, over and above, what opinions he pleases, without it being the Sovereign’s business to take cognisance of them; for, as the Sovereign has no authority in the other world, whatever the lot of its subjects may be in the life to come, that is not its business, provided they are good citizens in this life.

I do not like verbal explanations. Young people pay little heed to them, nor do they remember them. Things! Things! I cannot repeat it too often. We lay too much stress upon words; we teachers babble, and our scholars follow our example.

Hükümdar ya da yasacı olsaydım, ne demek gerektiğini söyleyip vaktimi boşuna harcamaz, ya yapacağımı yapar ya da susardım.