Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

We only half live when we only half think.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.