The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.