I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

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.