Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.