Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

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 free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.