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

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

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

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Freedom is self-determination.