I call him free who is led solely by reason.
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.