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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.