What saves one, destroys another.
Get me out of trouble first, my friend, and you'll moralize me later.
We often have to fear the least of our enemies
True greatness lies in mastering yourself.
love, love, when you put us under control, we can say: goodbye, reason!
Sadness flies on the wings of time.
There is nothing more dangerous than a rude friend.
The flower-lined path never leads to fame.
It is dangerous to hide something from your friends; but it is even more dangerous not to hide anything from them.
Patience and time give more than force or passion.
More flies drown in honey than in vinegar.
The Absolute is nothing but the sum of God's attributes.
Is there satisfaction without a little suffering? He who has not tasted the bitter, does not deserve the sweet, indeed he is not able to appreciate it. No truth should be disregarded.
When is a free being? When it is in harmony with its own being.
Demonstration by examples should never be considered a full demonstration.
Envy is an agitation (lack of satisfaction) of the soul born from the fact that the goods we desire are owned by someone else whom we do not consider more entitled to own them than we are ourselves.
Ideas are a kind of matter of thoughts.
He who is not equal to himself is not free.
People despise not vices so much as weakness and unhappiness.
Moral necessity does not hinder freedom, because whoever chooses the better does not thereby become less free; on the contrary, the fullest freedom rather consists precisely in the fact that nothing prevents things from unfolding in an optimal manner.
It is not proper for the wise man to expend his strength more than is necessary.
To the question of why there are currently an infinite number of monads, I answer: to be able to discover the full richness of the divine creation.
The present is great together with the future.
Our happiness should by no means lie in an absolute satisfaction that leaves nothing to be desired, a situation that would only encourage the dulling of the mind. The constant tendency towards new satisfactions and new fulfillments is happiness itself.
The truth is more widespread than it is assumed, but it is very often beautified, camouflaged, even minimized and distorted by various depositions that distort it and make it less useful.
The rays of light emanating from the infinite multitude of objects and passing through a small slit without mixing with each other, as can be observed in a dark room, serve as a paradigm of the refined spiritual world.
Modest people who happen to witness an inappropriate gesture experience a feeling similar to shame.
The reason for all harmony lies in the fact that every simple substance is of such a nature that its later state is the result of its former state.
I do not despise mystics: their thoughts are often clouded, but as they usually make use of wonderful allegories and moving images, this fact may facilitate access to the truth.
I despise almost nothing... No one is gifted with a less critical spirit than I am. This sounds weird, but I agree with almost everything I read. I know very well how varied things are, and that's why when I read, I immediately come across something that explains or justifies the author.