The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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.