I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.