Desire is the essence of a man.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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.

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.