Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.

... The power which the common people ascribe to God is not only a human power (which shows that they look upon God as a man, or as being like a man), but that it also involves weakness.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.