We feel and know that we are eternal.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.