He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

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

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.