Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

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

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.