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.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

God is a thing that thinks.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.