...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.