"No one can desire to preserve his being without desiring to enjoy life."

"A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life."

"The highest virtue of the mind is to know God."

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

"Man, in so far as he is determined to act, is a part of nature, and is necessarily determined to do whatever he does."