Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

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

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.