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

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.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.