Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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.

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.