The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal..

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole..

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death no….

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

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, o….

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; ….

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself..

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

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….

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

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason..

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals..

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 ….

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

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love..

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

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead ….

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….

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

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….