Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
All communication must lead to change.
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
It will contribute towards one’s object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
Authority is no source for Truth.
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
By ‘life,’ we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
Anybody can get hit over the head.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
No science ever defends its first principles.
One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
Intelligence consists not only in knowledge but also in the skill to apply that knowledge into practice.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what’s difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.
We can’t learn without pain.