It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.