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

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.