All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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.