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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.