Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.