Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.