The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.