“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”

“What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.”

“Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.”

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

“God is a conjecture; but I desire that your conjectures should be limited by what is thinkable. Can you think a god? [...] You should think through your own senses to their consequences.”

“Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.”