"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"Man is so great that his greatness even manifests itself in knowing himself to be miserable."

"Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice, because might has contradicted justice, and has declared that it is she herself who i…"

"Man is full of desires: he loves all that he can obtain, but he does not know how to obtain it."

"Reason's last step is to recognize that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it."