.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

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.