What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.