In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.