There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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.

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.