He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

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

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.