Everyone has as much right as he has might.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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