Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.