He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.