Reality and perfection are synonymous.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.