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

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Nothing comes out of nothing.

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.