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

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.