According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

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

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

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.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.