I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

Know thyself; this is the great object.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.