All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.