To rule yourself is the ultimate power
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.