Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

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