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.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.