Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

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

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

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