Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

To understand something is to be delivered of it.