If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

We feel and know that we are eternal.