“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.