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. |
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. |
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. |
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. |
Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes |
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. |
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. |
Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause |
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad |
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad |
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it |
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum |
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. |
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free |
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak |