Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.