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.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

God is a thing that thinks.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.