Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we l….

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow..

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor..

Sadness diminishes a man's powers.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing actin….

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? ….

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge..

In the mind there is no absolute or free will..

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding,….

We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow..

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than anoth….

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defi….

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy..

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole..

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action..

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures..

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master..

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it..

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge..

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids..

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion..