Work Only Can Keep Even Kings Respectable.

We Avoid Sensuousness, Only By Resorting To Simple Negation. We Come At Last To Define Spirit By Saying That It Is Not Matter.

Nothing Excites Men's Curiosity So Much As Mystery, Concealing Things Which They Desire To Know; And Nothing So Much Increases Curiosity As Obstacles That Interpose To Prevent Them From Indulging In The Gratification Of Their Desires. Of This The Legislators And Hierophants Took Advantage, To Attract The People To Their Sanctuaries, And To Induce Them To Seek To Obtain Lessons From Which They Would Perhaps Have Turned Away With Indifference If They Had Been Pressed Upon Them.

True Thoughts Have Duration In Themselves. If The Thoughts Endure, The Seed Is Enduring; If The Seed Endures, The Energy Endures; If The Energy Endures, Then Will The Spirit Endure. The Spirit Is Thought; Thought Is The Heart; The Heart Is The Fire; The Fire Is The Elixir.

Two Forms Of Government Are Favorable To The Prevalence Of Falsehood And Deceit. Under A Despotism, Men Are False, Treacherous, And Deceitful Through Fear, Like Slaves Dreading The Lash. Under A Democracy They Are So As A Means Of Attaining Popularity And Office, And Because Of The Greed For Wealth.

For It Is True Now, As It Always Was And Always Will Be, That To Be Free Is The Same Thing As To Be Pious, To Be Wise, To Be Temperate And Just, To Be Frugal And Abstinent, And To Be Magnanimous And Brave; And To Be The Opposite Of All These Is The Same As To Be A Slave.