We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.