It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

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.

If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.