Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

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.

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

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

Everyone has as much right as he has might.