Philosopher

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

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.

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

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Tentunya urusan manusia akan jauh lebih bahagia jika kekuatan pada pria untuk diam sama dengan berbicara. Tetapi pengalaman lebih dari cukup mengajarkan bahwa manusia tidak mengatur apa pun dengan kesulitan lebih dari lidah mereka, dan dapat memoderasi keinginan mereka lebih mudah daripada kata-kata mereka.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Selama seseorang membayangkan bahwa dia tidak dapat melakukan ini atau itu, selama dia bertekad untuk tidak melakukannya; dan akibatnya selama tidak mungkin baginya untuk melakukannya.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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

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.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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