Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it
The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.