Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.