He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.