Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.