It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Any peace is better than any war

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.