whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct a...
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
