“Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.”

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Do you know what it feels like to be wounded and told that you caused the wound to yourself by choosing to be where the harm landed?

Action can be both the cause and result of motivation.

I’ve spent most of my life not understanding that my anxiety was causing a downward spiral, self-medicating, and self-sabotage.

Solitude causes more wounds than it was ever meant to heal.

Clutching a burning match, he said “look, and she’ll explode”. Ignored the gas he poured; his match caused my implode.

We’re not the cause, we’re the effect.

You can’t play the victim if you caused the problem.

Every hand i ever held caused me more pain than words can ever tell.