"The more a thing has perfection, the more it acts, and the less it suffers."

"The highest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the highest virtue of the mind is to know God."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"He who wishes to revenge injuries by retaliating them, will live in a circle of hatred."

"A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life."