Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

More laws, less justice.