Julian the Apostate

"If anyone," [Julian the Apostate] wrote to Eumenius, "has persuaded you that there is anything more profitable to the human race than to pursue philosophy at one's leisure without interruptions, he is a deluded man trying to delude you."

• The Age of Faith
  • p. 15 (Easton Press, 1992)

Some men have a passion for horses, others for birds, others for wild beasts; but I from childhood have been possessed by a passionate longing to acquire books.

• The Age of Faith (Will Durant)
  • p. 15 (Easton Press, 1992)

I will assert, though it will seem paradoxical, that it would be a pious act to share our clothes and food even with the wicked. For it is to the humanity in a man that we give, and not to his moral character.

• The Age of Faith (Will Durant)
  • p. 17 (Easton Press, 1992)

[Julian the Apostate] loved philosophy too much to be dissuaded from it by the conduct of philosophers.

• The Age of Faith
  • p. 15 (Easton Press, 1992)