The present is great with the future.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.