I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.