He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

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.