Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.