I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.