The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Learn to cultivate your own garden.
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.