If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
God and all attributes of God are eternal.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
God is a thing that thinks.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
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