Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.