How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.