[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

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

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

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

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.