No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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.

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.