To understand something is to be delivered of it.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

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.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

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.

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

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.