The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
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 good nor bad to the deaf.
There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.