Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Read Summary
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. Read Summary
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. Read Summary
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. Read Summary
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Read Summary
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. Read Summary
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Read Summary
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Read Summary
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Read Summary
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. Read Summary