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.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

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.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.