Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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