True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.