Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

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.

All is One (Nature, God)

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

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.