As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Reality and perfection are synonymous.