It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.