The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.