Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.