Illusory Joy Is Often Worth More Than

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.

If We Possessed A Thorough Knowledge Of All The Parts Of The Seed Of Any Animal (e.g. Man), We Could From That Alone, Be Reasons Entirely Mathematical And Certain, Deduce The Whole Conformation And Figure Of Each Of Its Members, And, Conversely If We Knew Several Peculiarities Of This Conformation, We Would From Those Deduce The Nature Of Its Seed.

I Desire To Live In Peace And To Continue The Life I Have Begun Under The Motto 'to Live Well You Must Live Unseen

Common Sense Is The Best Distributed Thing In The World, For We All Think We Possess A Good Share Of It.

But In My Opinion, All Things In Nature Occur Mathematically.