From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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

Everyone has as much right as he has might.