Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.