Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.