God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
