Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

***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!

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.