Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

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