All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.