Quotes

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue that springs from strength of character.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze; it is written in the language of mathematics.

Each man bears the entire form of the human condition.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Love, and do what you will.