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

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words..

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the d….

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things..

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind..

Desire is the very essence of man.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment lik….

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fea….

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another ….

As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be procla….

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause..

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary..

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live..

God is a thing that thinks..

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another..

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas..

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained..

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others..

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a….

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is..

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another..