Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.