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

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

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.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

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.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.