Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.