None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

Freedom is self-determination.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.