The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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.
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.