I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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

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

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

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