By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.