Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

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

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.