Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.