Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

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.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.