The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.