Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I know whom I have believed.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.