Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
All is One (Nature, God)
Whatsoever is, is in God.
God is a thing that thinks.
Freedom is self-determination.
Desire is the essence of a man.
Sadness diminishes a man's powers
Desire is the very essence of man
Desire is the very essence of man.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Reality and perfection are synonymous.
God is not He who is, but That which is.
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
God and all attributes of God are eternal.
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
Everyone has as much right as he has might.
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
