The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.