The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of r….

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause..

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause..

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….

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infi….

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new a….

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediatel….

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature..

The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With t….

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness..

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it ca….

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with p….

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return..