Omnia Apud Me Mathematica Fiunt.

But In My Opinion, All Things In Nature Occur Mathematically.

Good Sense Is The Most Equitably Distributed Of All Things Because No Matter How Much Or Little A Person Has, Everyone Feels So Abundantly Provided With Good Sense That He Feels No Desire For More Than He Already Possesses.

There Is A Difference Between Happiness, The Supreme Good, And The Final End Or Goal Toward Which Our Actions Ought To Tend. For Happiness Is Not The Supreme Good, But Presupposes It, Being The Contentment Or Satisfaction Of The Mind Which Results From Possessing It.

... Regard This Body As A Machine Which, Having Been Made By The Hand Of God, Is Incomparably Better Ordered Than Any Machine That Can Be Devised By Man, And Contains In Itself Movements More Wonderful Than Those In Any Machine. ... It Is For All Practical Purposes Impossible For A Machine To Have Enough Organs To Make It Act In All The Contingencies Of Life In The Way In Which Our Reason Makes Us Act.

What Then Is The Source Of My Errors? They Are Owing Simply To The Fact That, Since The Will Extends Further Than The Intellect, I Do Not Contain The Will Within The Same Boundaries; Rather, I Also Extend It To Things I Do Not Understand. Because The Will Is Indifferent In Regard To Such Matters, It Easily Turns Away From The True And The Good; And In This Way I Am Deceived And I Sin.