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

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

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

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.