It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Faith is a gift of God.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.