The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.