Man cannot naturally will the good except under the aspect of the good.

Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.

I fear the man of a single book.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Every other is wholly other.

-- Jacques Derrida

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil

The purpose of human existence is to attain supreme happiness.

-- Farabi

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.

-- Albert Camus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza