Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.

Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a God who is able to do anything and by whom I, such as I am, have been created. How do I know that he did not bring it about that there is no earth at all, no heavens, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place, and yet bringing it about that all these things appear to me to exist precisely as they do now?

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

He lives well who is well hidden.