All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.