Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

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

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully