“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

Let me rage before I die.

The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.

Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

They can because they think they can.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

No benefits can be expected from war.

Trust one who has gone through it.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Time is flying never to return.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.