Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Power is not happiness.