Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

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.

Desire is the very essence of man

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.