The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.

What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.