I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

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.

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.