The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.