Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.

Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

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

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.