The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.