The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.