“everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...”

“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”

“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”

“Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand. ”

“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”

“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.”

“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”

“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”

“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”

“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”

“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”