Even Those Who Have The Weakest Souls

My Third Maxim Was To Try Always To Conquer Myself Rather Than Fortune, And To Change My Desires Rather Than The Order Of The World, And Generally To Accustom Myself To Believing That There Is Nothing Entirely In Our Power Except Our Thoughts, So That After We Have Done Our Best Regarding Things External To Us, Everything In Which We Do Not Succeed Is For Us Absolutely Impossible.

Truths Are More Likely To Be Discovered By One Man Than By A Nation

How Do We Know That Anything Really Exists, That Anything Is Really The Way It Seems Ot Us Through Our Senses?

Perfect Numbers Like Perfect Men Are Very Rare.

Good Sense Is The Most Equitably Distributed Of All Things Because No Matter How Much Or Little A Person Has, Everyone Feels So Abundantly Provided With Good Sense That He Feels No Desire For More Than He Already Possesses.