I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures

Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.