All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.