The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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.
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.
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
God and all attributes of God are eternal.
Everyone has as much right as he has might.
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
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.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
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.
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
God is a thing that thinks.
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
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