Happy is he who could see the bright fountain of the good.

In every adversity of fortune, the most unhappy kind of misfortune is to have been happy.

If you wish to see the laws of high thunder with a pure and skilful mind, look upon the summits of the highest heaven.

The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.

-- Chrysippus of Soli

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

-- Antoni Gaudí

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

-- Bertrand Russell

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

God, or Nature.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza