Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence. |
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. |
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. |
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. |
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. |
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. |
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. |