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

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.