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

I call him free who is led solely by reason..

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life..

God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence. Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of t….

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present..

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious..

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he wh….

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity..

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune..

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from….

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear..

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

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; ….

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity..

True virtue is life under the direction of reason..

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than ….

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue..

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them..

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustome….

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things..

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand..