What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.